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publié dans Ressources le 24 juin 2005

USAID: Making the world hungry for GM crops

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This briefing examines how the US government uses USAID to actively promote GM agriculture. The focus is on USAID’s major programmes for agricultural biotechnology and the regions where these programmes are most active in parts of Africa and Asia[1]. These USAID programmes are part of a multi-pronged strategy to advance US interests with GM crops. Increasingly the US government uses multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements and high-level diplomatic pressure to push countries towards the adoption of many key bits of corporate-friendly regulations related to GM crops. And this external pressure has been effectively complimented by lobbying and funding from national and regional USAID biotech networks.. GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people’s control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Un résumé de ce document (toujours en anglais) est paru dans la revue “seeding” (USAID in Africa : “For the American Corporations”. http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=331

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